Regime shifts in a socio-ecological model of farmland abandonment

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 737-749

  Figueiredo, Joana ^a   Pereira, Henrique M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Collective behavior; Deforestation; Forest regeneration; Human decision; Hysteresis; Linked social ecological system; Migration; Rural exodus; Threshold; Utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865991344     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9605-3     Document Type: Article

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